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We’re walking again in memory of my mom.

The baby did not cooperate with us today, so we don’t know what it will be yet.

Today was a packed day.

Day two started out late, as Jason ended up with some phone calls to deal with.

Jason started remodeling the bathroom today.

I’m Bart, who are you?

**What American accent do you have?

I got a kick out of this job application.

If you’re looking to get started with Ruby on Rails and you’re a Windows user, this book will walk you through setting up some of the tools you’ll need, as well as show you how connect to Microsoft SQL Server and set up Capistrano.

For those that have not yet heard the news, I am going to be a father (again).

We have such a complex, crazy language that it’s hard to keep everything straight.

I’m headed to Portland with Chris, Mike, Josh, and Carissa.

Jacob completed the Boston Marathon.

It seems a certain multilevel marketing company has managed to infiltrate the small town where I grew up.

We’ve had issues with the bathrooms in our house since we moved in.

For those that don’t know, I am now using a Mac most of the time.

I am really excited to be working with Erich again.

Richard Jeni, one of my favorite comedians, died this weekend from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Just a quick note to let you know that I have been working on my book for O’Reilly lately and we are making really good progress.

Some interesting tips to save your eyes.

I managed to pull some muscles in my back Monday morning on my way to work.

I just got a nice present from Microsoft for helping them along with a project.

Just sent another draft of my “Rails for Windows” book to my editor.

Best commercial ever.

I figured I should take a few minutes today to do some updates to the blog since I’ve been getting lots of emails and phone calls asking what I’ve been doing.

It’s been one year since Mom passed away.

The United States has planned a change to its DST observance beginning in 2007.

Best wishes to you and your families. may you have a wonderful holiday and a blessed New Year!

The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all looks and feels the same, a federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that could change the face of American currency.

Ana had a good candy run.

We made it home.

We just landed in St.

Well, I’m sitting in the Rochester museum uploading pictures to Flickr and waiting for my plane.

Our Ruby on Rails presentation won best of track!

The planetarium and science museum trip was awesome.

This conference is awesome.

I’m writing this on my WordPress blog while sitting in a great presentation about WordPress.

The first day was great.

Our presentation went very well.

Just saw a great presentation about using Fieldsets to semantically mark up web forms.

I hate flying.

Lillian and I are presenting at HighEdWebDev this year about Ruby on Rails and how developers can use it to be more productive.

I’ve been busy working on the book.

Getting a job in the IT field can be really difficult unless you know people or know how to market yourself.

We went to the Festival in the Pines on Sunday with Dad.

I signed the contract for my new book.

I spend a lot of time working with the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework.

The plan was that Erich, Josh, and Carissa were going to all get up early and go decorate the reception hall at the golf course while I stayed back with the kids.

Josh’s car broke down right before the rehearsal so he hasn’t gotten his tux yet.

Josh organized a golf outing yesterday for anyone who was interested.